Mar 30, 2026
Raquel Willis' resume is long: the
first trans lead editor at Out magazine, a TIME 100 awardee,
memoirist (The Risk It Takes To Bloom), and co-founder of the group
Gender Liberation, whose direct actions at the US capitol calling
for basic needs like trans healthcare reverberate far outside the
DMV.
We discuss the...
Mar 23, 2026
The return of Susan Stryker! On this
episode: The utopian potential of Trans SanFrisco of the 1990s, and
why the new third edition of Transgender History may be her last
time editing the classic tome.
Transgender...
Mar 20, 2026
Friends Stab and Trung both texted me when about a recent, very Sad Francisco-coded feature in Wired magazine. Here's a little response, inspired partially by an impromptu reading group a few friends did around the piece.
Mentioned:
Alexandr Wang
Barry's Bootcamp
Melania's box office
Peter Thiel
Sam...
Mar 10, 2026
First episode covering movies set in the Bay!
Starting with: 1971’s DIRTY HARRY, in which Clint Eastwood plays a vigilante cop tracking down a gay Zodiac killer clone in a San Francisco overrun with hippie scum.
Jemma on her book “The Aesthetic Character of Blackness: Sounds Like Us”
Mar 2, 2026
Uncover the lore of four masked comrades who meet up regularly to offer aid to unhoused neighbors and teach self-defense.
We talk about the discourse around wearing frog costumes to ICE
protests and giving public comment at San Jose City Hall dressed as
Batman (that’s the clip at the beginning of the episode).
BASH...